Twitching After Citalopram Use

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Hello , sorry for my English is not my language.I've been reading in this forum, but I never dared to publish .I took two years scared. After a long period of stress and hypochondria began twitching after starting an SSRI called Citalopram . Immediately stop taking the drug , but the twitching had already spread throughout my body. Calves , arms , hands, eyes ...I visited five neurologists all say I'm fine. I had a clean EMG at 6 months . Most of my twitches are twins.I have accepted this condition, but there is something that really worries me a lot.I can easily induce twitching with my calves and calves , sometimes in hand simply hit the muscle.I hit the muscle and within seconds I can see a series of contractions .I can get this in 90 % of cases .I admit that I am obsessed with the power to induce . I've even come to have bruises on the legs by the force of the blows.I have read that many neurologists hit the muscle to see if there are symptoms of denervation.I searched this forum, and I found few post related twitches produced by the beating of the muscles.It should be quiet after 2 years, but I do not get peacethanks
 
Don't worry about that... If I blink hard I twitch as do many here ... If I rub my tongue firmly it twitches lots !! Some people here flick the tongue and it goes crazy, like I said I only have to rub mine..
 
What really scares me is to induce hitting my muscles twitching, for example my calves or quadriceps.No one on the forum has tried to induce fasiculaciones hitting your muscles? or just am I the only crazy: (I feel a little different.Is it normal that I can induce hitting muscles twitching?Thanks friends
 
after that much time and seeing that many nero's you have nothing to be concerned about please read bfs in a nutshell. its a good summary it doesn't really matter what your specific symptoms are because BFS is harmless and it cannot possibly hurt you. The only way I would be alarmed at your symptoms at all would be if you said "I can't pick up a fork and my hand stopped working two weeks ago." THAT would be the type of symptom that would alarm you. Anything less than that (ie, like 99.999999% of other symptoms) are nothing more than plain old ordinary BFS. Nobody on this board has a symptom that is even close to alarming" Bfs is 90 %mental you need to work hard at Reducing your stressthanks
 
Personally, i can induce twithching by thinking of it if i'm in a period of worry about this symptom ... so i'm not surprised that hitting a muscle can do that.
 
I just had acupuncture for sciatica pain... When they inserted the needle I to my buttock and upper thigh I twitched loads ... Like a rumbling matching gun twitch ! I also got similar ones elsewhere at the same time ! So again it's an enduced twitch !
 
It is very common for BFSers to induce twitching by flexing or loading the muscle. Sneezing, yawingn, tapping, strtching causes twitches.So this does not mean anyting else except the fact wihc is a basis of BFS - your muscles show hyperexcitation.
 
thanks for the replies. But while I had read that neurologists with his hammer hit the muscles and get them a while watching for muscular twitches shaped response. As I read this behavior could be a symptom of denervationMy second neurologist hit the muscles with his hammer and stayed watching (has nothing to do with reflex test), but I do not ask for shame.Thank you friends
 
I understand they do this but you have to remember this is a test in normal people who are potentially presenting with ALS>A few of my muscles do the same (My feet especially) and will start twitching if I hit them.
 
Labrie,never heard about such test, but generally inducing twitching by tapping for example fascial muscles is well known as Chvostek sign and many of us have that more or less prnounced. When the muscels are reponsing with twitching in that way, this means only that they experience hyperexcitation. it could be central (both benign and malignant) and it could be spinal (caused by damage in anterior horns of spine), and finally it could be very local in the nerve axon innervating the muscle or in the muscle membranes. By elimination (becasue we do not demonstate usualy malignant cortex or spinal horns excitability caused by cortex damage, like in stroke or ALS whic is seen on EMG/MRI) the most probably in BFS we have locla muscle membranes hyperexcitation or periferal neurons hyperexcitation. So such test just shows the final result not revealing reasons for it. In order to check if it is ALS or not, other signs must be available, like clinical weakness, missed and exagerrated reflexes (altogether), etc.If the doctor does not test you for induced twitches, it means he or she did not found any signs of cortical or spinal damage suggestive of ALS. And tons of us have induced twitches and none developed ALS then.
 

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